Word: lauren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...
...Breaking Point (Warner) is the latest turn in the cinematic fortunes of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel, To Have and Have Not. The Warners used the title in 1944 for a movie that launched the career of Lauren Bacall and pretty much let the Hemingway story alone. Then, in 1948, they borrowed one of the novel's episodes for the climax of Key Largo. At last the studio has made a film of the book itself. The result is an expert piece of hard-boiled cinema...
...movie that is neither firm nor fully packed. Laid in North Carolina in the 18905, and based on Foster Fitz-Simons' historical novel, it leans heavily on such standbys as the rakehell hero (Gary Cooper), the bosomy belle of the Old South (Patricia Neal) and the brazen hussy (Lauren Bacall), who is presented as the madam of what is delicately described as a "boardinghouse for ladies...
...their spare time, Luc's fellow teenagers introduce him to a dream world in which the models are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. (Fourteen-year-old Josette practices screaming into the wind until her voice approximates the right cracked huskiness; Luc tries to imitate Gunman Bogart.) Off & on, Luc sits in on an interminable argument between Black-Marketeer Vanderputte and a friend on the police force who comes to visit him every week. Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte...
Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...